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Subject: Re: Remove all Thumbnails / Meta-Data?
Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 17:53:51 +0200Hi,
Interesting document. Thank you!
My program should remove all supported metadata and thumbnails. But because there are many different ways to store information inside images, I always recommend that you verify that the desired content was removed, as a safety precaution.
For viewing metadata there are many choices. A simple tool I use is exifread:
http://www.takenet.or.jp/~ryuuji/minisoft/exifread/english/
// Dan
Christian wrote:
> Hi Dan!
>
> - Does your program remove all Metadata, especially all thumbnails?
> Regardless which format is used (EXIF, IPTC, manufacturer-specific)
> etc?
>
> - Is it possible to view this metadata?
>
> There's is an interesting presentation [1] about images with
> accidentally published thumbnails on the web :-) .
>
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Chris
>
>
> [1]: http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/fahrplan/files/316-hidden-data-slides.pdf
>
>
>
Interesting document. Thank you!
My program should remove all supported metadata and thumbnails. But because there are many different ways to store information inside images, I always recommend that you verify that the desired content was removed, as a safety precaution.
For viewing metadata there are many choices. A simple tool I use is exifread:
http://www.takenet.or.jp/~ryuuji/minisoft/exifread/english/
// Dan
Christian wrote:
> Hi Dan!
>
> - Does your program remove all Metadata, especially all thumbnails?
> Regardless which format is used (EXIF, IPTC, manufacturer-specific)
> etc?
>
> - Is it possible to view this metadata?
>
> There's is an interesting presentation [1] about images with
> accidentally published thumbnails on the web :-) .
>
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Chris
>
>
> [1]: http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/fahrplan/files/316-hidden-data-slides.pdf
>
>
>